We are a group of three students studying B. Sc. Computer Science at the DHBW Karlsruhe. During our lecture of Software Engineering we have to implement a program. On this website we will inform you about the progress of our project.
Our idea is to develop a Xamarin App for chatting with strangers around you.
The basic idea behind NeCo is to use localization technologies to create chatrooms with people around you, similar to the popular app “Jodel”. The difference is that you chat with random people in your local area, to meet, to party, or just to have fun.
For security reasons we’ll use latest encrypting technology like RSA&AES-Encrypting.
Ideas for future features could be:
- A friend list to keep in contact.
We will publish parts of our source code here and hope to get your comments to help us create our app the best way possible.
Thank you for reading our blog!
NeCo 
Hey NeCo project team,
As you mentioned, you will be able to create a chatroom by yourself and then the people in a certain range of you position can join your chat. Will the chatrooms be automatically be closed after a certain time or will there be a possibility to save or mark a room as a favorite so that you can keep contact with a group even if you aren’t in range?
In the case that the chats are time and range bound, I would suggest to implement some kind of mechanism so that people can stay in contact, like e.g. a friend list.
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The idea is to keep chatrooms open as long as you want to stay in, but as soon as you move out of the range this chatroom covers, you will leave it.
A friend list is a very good idea to help poeple to stay in touch.
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Do you plan on encrypting conversations for privacy reasons?
Will users be identifiable in the app?
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Encrypting conversations is a very important topic and we will take care of this.
As a first step, we plan to keep users anonymous, but maybe in the future users can create accounts or nicknamed identities.
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